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Strong's G4521 σάββατον (sabbaton)

Sabbaton means “Sabbath” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4521 — menath (“portion”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4521
Language Greek
Linked Usages 174
Books 27

Strong's G4521 Quick Answer

Strong's G4521 σάββασιν is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. sabbaton (sab'-bat-on) n. 1. the Sabbath (i.e. Shabbath) 2. a day of weekly repose from secular avocations It has 174 linked Bible usages across 27 books. Visible English usage signals include sabbath and day. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
sabbaton (sab'-bat-on) n. 1. the Sabbath (i.e. Shabbath) 2. a day of weekly repose from secular avocations
Usage
174 linked usages
Books
27 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
sabbath and day

Meaning and Definition

sabbaton (sab'-bat-on) n. 1. the Sabbath (i.e. Shabbath) 2. a day of weekly repose from secular avocations 3. the observance or institution itself 4. (by extension) a week, i.e. the interval between t

Original Word
σάββασιν
Morphology
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Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4521. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

Sabbath

Usage: σάββατον, -ου, τό (Aram. שַׁבָּתָא, transliterated σάββατα, and this being mistaken for a pl., the sing. σάββατον was formed from it), and σάββατα, -ων, τά [in LXX for שַׁבָּת, שַׁבָּתוֹן ;] __1. the seventh day of the week, the sabbath __(a) the sing. form -ον, τὸ σ.: Mat.12:8, Mrk.2:27, Luk.6:5, al.; ἡ ἡμέρα τοῦ σ. (in LXX, Exo.20:8, al., usually τῶν σ., see infr.), Luk.13:16 14:5; ὁδὸς σαββάτου, Act.1:12 (cf. Mat.24:29); dative, of time (τῷ) σ., Luk.6:9 14:1; ἐν (τῷ) σ., Mat.12:2, Luk.6:7, Jhn.5:16, al.;

accusative, of duration, τὸ σ., Luk.23:56; κατὰ πᾶν σ., Act.13:27 15:21 18:4; pl., σ. τρία, Act.17:2 R, txt. (but see infr.); __(b) as most frequently in LXX (see Swete, Mk., 17; Thackeray, Gr., 35) the pl. form, τὰ σ. (see supr. on the Aram. form. There is also an analogy in the names of other festivals, τ. ἐγκαίνια, ἄζυμα, etc.): Mat.28:1, Col.2:16; ἡ ἡμέρα τῶν σ. (Exo.20:8, al.), Luk.4:16, Act.13:14 16:13; dative pl.

(in LXX -τοις, but 1Ma.2:38 as in NT) by metaplasmus (El., § 9, 3), σάββασι, Mat.12:1, 5 12:10-12 Mrk.1:21 2:23 3:2, 4, Luk.4:31 6:2. __2. seven days, a week; __(a) the sing. form: πρώτη σαββάτσυ, Mrk.16:9; δὶς τοῦ σ. (Bl., § 35, 4; 36, 13), Luk.18:12; κατὰ μίαν σαββάτου, 1Co.16:2; pl., σ. τρία, Act.17:2 R, mg. (but see supr.); __(b) the pl. form: ἡ μία τῶν σ. (where the genitive = μετὰ τά; Soph., Lex., 43a), Mat.28:1, Mrk.16:2, Luk.24:1, Jhn.20:1, 19, Act.20:7 (AS)

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How Strong's G4521 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Strong's G4521, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

sabbath Matthew 12:1 28× day Mark 16:2

How Strong's G4521 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 90 linked usages.
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  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4521 (σάββασιν) appears 131 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4521 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G4521 in the New Testament

62 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 12:1 KJV

At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat.

Matthew 12:2 KJV

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.

Matthew 12:5 KJV

Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

Strong's G4521 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

90 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 16:23 Septuagint / Brenton

And Moses said to them, Is not this the word which the Lord spoke? Tomorrow is the Sabbath, a holy rest to the Lord: bake that ye will bake, and seethe that ye will seethe, and all that is over leave to be laid by for the morrow.

Exodus 16:25 Septuagint / Brenton

And Moses said, Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord: it shall not be found in the plain.

Exodus 16:26 Septuagint / Brenton

Six days ye shall gather it, and on the seventh day is a Sabbath, for there shall be none on that day.

Strong's G4521 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

21 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Strong's G4521 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4521.

Exodus 16:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses said to them, Is not this the word which the Lord spoke? Tomorrow is the Sabbath, a holy rest to the Lord: bake that ye will bake, and seethe that ye will seethe, and all that is over leave to be laid by for the morrow.
Exodus 16:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses said, Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord: it shall not be found in the plain.
Exodus 16:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Six days ye shall gather it, and on the seventh day is a Sabbath, for there shall be none on that day.
Exodus 16:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
See, for the Lord has given you this day as the Sabbath, therefore he has given you on the sixth day the bread of two days: ye shall sit each of you in your houses; let no one go forth from his place on the seventh day.
Exodus 20:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
Exodus 20:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But on the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; on it thou shalt do no work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy servant nor thy maidservant, thine ox nor thine ass, nor any cattle of thine, nor the stranger that sojourns with thee.
Exodus 31:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Do thou also charge the children of Israel, saying, Take heed and keep my Sabbaths; for they are a sign with me and among you throughout your generations, that ye may know that I am the Lord that sanctifies you.
Exodus 31:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall keep the Sabbaths, because this is holy to the Lord for you; he that profanes it shall surely be put to death: every one who shall do a work on it, that soul shall be destroyed from the midst of his people.
Exodus 31:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Six days thou shalt do works, but the seventh day is the Sabbath, a holy rest to the Lord; everyone who shall do a work on the seventh day shall be put to death.
Exodus 31:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbaths, to observe them throughout their generations.
Exodus 35:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Six days shalt thou perform works, but on the seventh day shall be rest—a holy Sabbath—a rest for the Lord: every one that does work on it, let him die.
Exodus 35:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall not burn a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day; I am the Lord.
Leviticus 16:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This shall be to you a most holy Sabbath, a rest, and ye shall humble your souls; it is a perpetual ordinance.
Leviticus 19:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let every one of you reverence his father and his mother; and ye shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuaries: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 23:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Six days shalt thou do works, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath; a rest, a holy convocation to the Lord: thou shalt not do any work, it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 23:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall number to yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day on which ye shall offer the sheaf of the heave offering, seven full weeks:
Leviticus 23:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
It shall be a holy Sabbath to you; and ye shall humble your souls, from the ninth day of the month: from evening to evening ye shall keep your Sabbaths.
Leviticus 23:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
besides the Sabbaths of the Lord, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides your free will offerings, which ye shall give to the Lord.
Leviticus 24:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
On the Sabbath day they shall be set forth before the Lord continually before the children of Israel, for an everlasting covenant.
Leviticus 25:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whensoever ye shall have entered into the land, which I give to you, then the land shall rest which I give to you, for its Sabbaths to the Lord.
Leviticus 25:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath, it shall be a rest to the land, a Sabbath to the Lord: thou shalt not sow thy field, and thou shalt not prune thy vine.
Leviticus 25:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Sabbaths of the land shall be food for thee, and for thy manservant, and for thy maidservant, and thy hireling, and the stranger that abides with thee.
Leviticus 26:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuaries: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 26:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of its desolation.
Leviticus 26:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall keep its Sabbaths, and the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of its desolation: it shall keep Sabbaths which it kept not among your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt in it.
Leviticus 26:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will remember the land, and the land shall be left of them; then the land shall enjoy her Sabbaths, when it is deserted through them: and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquities, because they neglected my judgments, and in their soul loathed my ordinances.
Numbers 15:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
Numbers 15:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they who found him gathering sticks on the Sabbath day brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel.
Numbers 28:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And on the Sabbath day ye shall offer two lambs of a year old without blemish, and two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a drink offering.
Numbers 28:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
It is a whole burnt offering of the Sabbaths on the Sabbath days, besides the continued whole burnt offering, and its drink offering.
Deuteronomy 5:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God commanded thee.
Deuteronomy 5:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
but on the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do in it no work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy maidservant, thine ox, and thine ass, and all thy cattle, and the stranger that sojourns in the midst of thee; that thy manservant may rest, and thy maid, and thine ox, as well as thou.
Deuteronomy 5:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out thence with a mighty hand, and a high arm: therefore the Lord appointed thee to keep the Sabbath day and to sanctify it.
4 Kingdoms 4:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, Why art thou going to him today? It is neither new moon, nor the Sabbath. And she said, It is well.
4 Kingdoms 11:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And charged them, saying, This is the thing which ye shall do.
4 Kingdoms 11:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there shall be two parties among you, even everyone that goes out on the Sabbath, and they shall keep the guard of the Lord’s house before the king.
4 Kingdoms 11:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the captains of hundreds did all things that the wise Jehoiada commanded; and they took each his men, both those that went in on the Sabbath day, and those that went out on the Sabbath day, and went in to Jehoiada the priest.
1 Chronicles 9:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Banaias the Kohathite, from among their brethren, was set over the showbread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
1 Chronicles 23:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and to be over all the whole burnt offerings that were offered up to the Lord on the Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts, by number, according to the order given to them, continually before the Lord.
2 Chronicles 2:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
behold, I also his son am building a house to the name of the Lord my God, to consecrate it to him, to burn incense before him, and to offer showbread continually, and to offer up whole burnt offerings continually morning and evening, and on the Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts of the Lord our God: this is a perpetual statute for Israel.
2 Chronicles 8:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
according to the daily rate, to offer up sacrifices according to the commandments of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts, three times in the year, at the feast of unleavened bread, and at the feast of weeks, and at the feast of tabernacles.
2 Chronicles 23:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now this is the thing which ye shall do. Let a third part of you, even of the priests and of the Levites, enter in on the Sabbath, even into the gates of the entrances;
2 Chronicles 23:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Levites and all Judah did according to all that the priest Jehoiada commanded them, and they took each his men from the beginning of the Sabbath to the end of the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the courses.
2 Chronicles 31:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king’s proportion out of his substance was appointed for the whole burnt offerings, the morning and the evening one, and the whole burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the feasts that were ordered in the law of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 36:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Sabbath keeping all the days of its desolation, till the accomplishment of seventy years.
Nehemiah 9:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
Nehemiah 10:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
Nehemiah 10:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:
Nehemiah 13:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
Nehemiah 13:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 13:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
Nehemiah 13:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
Nehemiah 13:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
Nehemiah 13:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
Nehemiah 13:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
Psalms 23:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Psalm for David on the first day of the week. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof; The world, and all that dwell in it.
Psalms 37:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Psalm of David for remembrance concerning the Sabbath day.
Psalms 47:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Psalm of praise for the sons of Korah on the second day of the week.
Psalms 91:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Psalm of a Song for the Sabbath day.
Psalms 93:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Psalm of David for the fourth day of the week. The Lord is a God of vengeance; The God of vengeance has declared himself.
Isaiah 1:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Though ye bring fine flour, it is vain; incense is an abomination to me; I cannot bear your new moons, and your Sabbaths, and the great day;
Isaiah 56:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Blessed is the man that does these things, and the man that holds by them, and keeps the Sabbaths from profaning them, and keeps his hands from doing unrighteousness.
Isaiah 56:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, as many as shall keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things which I take pleasure in, and take hold of my covenant;
Isaiah 56:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will give it to the strangers that attach themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be to him servants and handmaids; and as for all that keep my Sabbaths from profaning them, and that take hold of my covenant;
Isaiah 58:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, so as not to do thy pleasure on the holy days, and shalt call the Sabbaths delightful, holy to God; if thou shalt not lift up thy foot to work, nor speak a word in anger out of thy mouth,
Isaiah 66:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass from month to month, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, that all flesh shall come to worship before me in Jerusalem, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 17:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
thus saith the Lord; Take heed to your souls, and take up no burdens on the Sabbath day, and go not forth through the gates of Jerusalem;
Jeremiah 17:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and carry forth no burdens out of your houses on the Sabbath day, and ye shall do no work: sanctify the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
Jeremiah 17:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass, if ye will hearken to me, saith the Lord, to carry in no burdens through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and to sanctify the Sabbath day, so as to do no work upon it,
Jeremiah 17:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But it shall come to pass, if ye will not hearken to me to sanctify the Sabbath day, to bear no burdens, nor go in with them by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the streets of Jerusalem, and shall not be quenched.
Lamentations 2:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he has scattered his tabernacle as a vine, He has marred his feast: The Lord has forgotten the feast And the Sabbath which he appointed in Zion, And in the fury of his wrath Has vexed the king, and priest, and prince.
Ezekiel 20:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I gave them my Sabbaths, that they should be for a sign between me and them, that they should know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
Ezekiel 20:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, Walk ye in my commandments: but they walked not in them, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned my Sabbaths: and I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezekiel 20:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my commandments, but profaned my Sabbaths, and went after the imaginations of their hearts.
Ezekiel 20:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and hallow my Sabbaths, and let them be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.
Ezekiel 20:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But they provoked me, and their children walked not in my commandments, and they took no heed to mine ordinances to do them, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned my Sabbaths: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish mine anger upon them.
Ezekiel 20:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
because they kept not mine ordinances, and rejected my commandments, and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes went after the imaginations of their fathers.
Ezekiel 22:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they have set at nought my holy things, and in thee they have profaned my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 22:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Her priests also have set at nought my law, and profaned my holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.
Ezekiel 23:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So long too as they did these things to me, they defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 44:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And these shall attend at a judgment of blood to decide it: they shall rightly observe my ordinances, and judge my judgments, and keep my statutes and my commandments in all my feasts; and they shall hallow my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 45:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And through the prince shall be offered the whole burnt offerings and the meat offerings, and the drink offerings in the feasts, and at the new moons, and on the Sabbaths; and in all the feasts of the house of Israel: he shall offer the sin offerings, and the meat offering, and the whole burnt offerings, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 46:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord God; The gate that is in the inner court, that looks eastward, shall be shut the six working days; but let it be opened on the Sabbath day, and it shall be opened on the day of the new moon.
Ezekiel 46:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people of the land shall worship at the entrance of that gate, both on the Sabbaths and at the new moons, before the Lord.
Ezekiel 46:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the prince shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord on the Sabbath day, six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish;
Ezekiel 46:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if the prince should prepare as a thanksgiving a whole burnt peace offering to the Lord, and should open for himself the gate looking eastward, and offer his whole burnt offering, and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day; then shall he go out, and shall shut the doors after he has gone out.
Hosea 2:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will take away all her gladness, her feasts, and her festivals at the new moon, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
Amos 6:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye who are approaching the evil day, who are drawing near and adopting false Sabbaths;
Amos 8:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
saying, When will the month pass away, and we shall sell, and the Sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair?
Matthew 12:1 New Testament, KJV
At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat.
Matthew 12:2 New Testament, KJV
But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
Matthew 12:5 New Testament, KJV
Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Matthew 12:8 New Testament, KJV
For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
Matthew 12:10 New Testament, KJV
And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
Matthew 12:11 New Testament, KJV
And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
Matthew 12:12 New Testament, KJV
How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Matthew 24:20 New Testament, KJV
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
Matthew 28:1 New Testament, KJV
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Mark 1:21 New Testament, KJV
And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
Mark 2:23 New Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
Mark 2:24 New Testament, KJV
And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
Mark 2:27 New Testament, KJV
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Mark 2:28 New Testament, KJV
Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Mark 3:2 New Testament, KJV
And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
Mark 3:4 New Testament, KJV
And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
Mark 6:2 New Testament, KJV
And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
Mark 16:1 New Testament, KJV
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
Mark 16:2 New Testament, KJV
And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
Mark 16:9 New Testament, KJV
Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
Luke 4:16 New Testament, KJV
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
Luke 4:31 New Testament, KJV
And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.
Luke 6:1 New Testament, KJV
And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.
Luke 6:2 New Testament, KJV
And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
Luke 6:5 New Testament, KJV
And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Luke 6:6 New Testament, KJV
And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered.
Luke 6:7 New Testament, KJV
And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.
Luke 6:9 New Testament, KJV
Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?
Luke 13:10 New Testament, KJV
And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
Luke 13:14 New Testament, KJV
And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4521, grouped by book.

Exodus 12 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 15 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 15 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 9 usages, New Testament
Mark 11 usages, New Testament
Luke 19 usages, New Testament
John 11 usages, New Testament
Acts 10 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Colossians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 11 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 6 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G4521 FAQ

What does sabbaton (σάββατον) mean?

Sabbaton (Strong's G4521) is a Greek word most simply glossed "Sabbath". sabbaton (sab'-bat-on) n. 1. the Sabbath (i.e. Shabbath) 2. a day of weekly repose from secular avocations

How many times is sabbaton (σάββατον) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 174 linked usages for Strong's G4521 across 27 books.

Where can I study sabbaton (σάββατον) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4521 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate sabbaton (σάββατον)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sabbath and day. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G4521 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 90 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 21 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G4521, with linked reader references where each row is available.